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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... just got back from a long, long, long trip across Italy which I will ... cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some ... from below, then from the sides. The colors didn't change at all from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  did it come from? Supportive parents? A stable, comfortable home and ... endpoints? Did it come from not having yet experienced a pileup of history of ... working harder. So here are some action items, borrowed from a happy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  . Tropes, all the way from 1996. I will not include a self-destruct mechanism ... While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  robot. That’s what I did over IAP! The podcast is from something a long ... Sarah A. ‘18 (who lives down the hall from me in New House 4) to an aerial ... Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  awesome anti-establishment monologue from a play called Another Antigone and ... with a "J" are interdisciplinary, so students from more than one major ... : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  lining the sidewalks from the recent blizzard had a fresh coat of sparkly ... options (such as: exploring the city, socializing, trying a new recipe, visiting a favorite restaurant, or catching a movie!) it can be a hard

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  different person than the Maggie from 2008. When I came to MIT, I lived in a ... I just came back to my dorm room from all the graduation hooplah. I have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  university shields us from the recession and a sea of red shelters our tiny ... Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several people affiliated with MIT put on a live webcast from 77 Massachusetts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from a humanities teacher ("Evaluation B"). If you are applying this year ... from whom you received the best grade. You do not need to choose a senior

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... between MIT, a state-school that is giving you nearly a free ride, an Ivy League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the ... !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a ... , supporting my team the way I had hoped, and taking a backseat overall. But, it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time ... This is a quick read and I read it one day after complaining on facebook to a friend that I wasn’t able to lose any weight. I think he was sick

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider ... make it not just a simple means of transport, but an integral part of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  . And I saw an ostrich across the street from a Chinese restaurant in the ... Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar ... 't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  From 2022-2023, I travelled [annotation note="a quick count suggests ... valuable to learn from how molecules have evolved and changed. It's also a ... posting it at the airport AFTER returning from my trip (a day later lol

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and ... for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010